On the 441st day from the start of the war in ukrainea new supply of weapons can mark the future of the conflict. Britain supplied kyiv with Storm Shadow long-range cruise missilesaccording to a Western official, which would allow his forces to strike Russian troops and logistics centers behind the front line.

Ukraine has been asking for long-range missiles for months, but support from Britain and other allies like the United States has so far been limited to shorter-range weapons. Upon learning of this new endowment, the Kremlin assured that it would be necessary “an adequate response from our military”.

During this time, the Ukrainian army successfully carried out counterattacks in the region of bakhmut and at times he forced the Russian troops must withdraw to two kilometers, said the commander of the ground forces of Ukraine, general Oleksandr Syrsky. The military ensured that Wagner’s fighters were being replaced in parts of the city by less prepared Russian regular army units.

However, Volodimir Zelensky He assured this Thursday that his country needed more time to launch a counter-offensive against Russian forces, while his army awaits the delivery of the promised military aid. “(With what we already have) we can continue, but we would lose a lot of people. I think that’s unacceptable. So we have to wait. We still need a little more time.”he claimed.

Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin described these statements as “a ruse by Zelensky. The counter-offensive is already in full swing.” According to the leader of the mercenaries, the Ukrainian army “attacks from the flanks on the Bakhmut front and unfortunately in some places with success”. And then he predicted that they will attack “Briansk, Belgorod, with the entry into Russian territory, and Zaporizhia”.

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